minaret
noun
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
minareted
-
a word derived from
minaret.
Example Sentences
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New York's Metropolitan Philaret led a glittering procession down Geary Boulevard in San Francisco to the minareted Cathedral of the Holy Virgin, there to confirm with another solemn liturgy that Herman is really a saint.
From Time Magazine Archive
The minareted building, whose interior resembles a Moorish courtyard, reopened in 1975 with a Linda Ronstadt concert, under the management of Atlanta Landmarks, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But some were straight and tall, some were squat and fairy-colored and others blossomed from thin stalks into impossibly bulbous, minareted domes, like long-stemmed tulips reproduced in stone.
From The Sky Is Falling by Lester Del Rey
North and south, the horizon was a chaotic sky land of pinnacles, spired and minareted, steepled and turreted and domed, each diademed with its green and argent of eternal ice and snow.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
Looking down a long valley, we could see towers of evergreen, terraces of red and brown, golden steeple-tops, gilded domes minareted with lavender and purple and draped with scarlet banners.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
